Land ordinance to be biggest trigger for Prime Minister's downfall: Congress

Jammu: Asserting that the Narendra Modi led central government cannot displease majority population of the farmers to please a handful of corporates, Jammu and Kashmir Congress on Tuesday said the Land Ordinance will prove to be the biggest trigger for the Prime Minister's down fall.

"Land Ordinance will be the biggest trigger for Modi's downfall. You cannot displease 67 percent of the population who are farmers to please a handful of corporates who Prime Minister is beholden to," Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader and former Minister Nawang Rigzin Jora said on Tuesday.

Jora said, "the corporate houses, some of whom own big media houses, helped catapult Modi in the Prime Minister's chair 10 months ago. The media blitzkrieg and the lavish campaign that BJP launched were all thanks to these corporate friends."

Since it was pay back time, Prime Minister could not but bring the Land ordinances - one after another. His friends were demanding their pound of flesh. Otherwise, how did one explain the need for ordinance without operationalising the 2013 Right to Fair Compensation and Rehabilitation Act, he added.

Jora cited this Act, which was the collective effort of all the political parties, was enacted after thorough discussion in the Parliament.